HOR

By Peter Preston

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'Hor' is both a novel and a book-length prose-poem. Based on the most sacred of ancient Egyptian texts, it tells the story of the journey of the sun-god, Re, through the Underworld towards the dawn. Woven into this central theme are the mysteries of the ancient mythology as recorded in such texts as the Book of the Dead and the Book of Caverns from the tomb of the pharaoh, Rameses VI.

Peter Preston, former managing editor of an internationally recognized literary publishers, studied physics at Durham University before turning to the study of literature and to book publishing. His other published novels are 'Vertical line' and 'Hor'.